Israeli forces arrested 502 Palestinians in January, human rights organisations stated yesterday.
In a joint assertion, the Fee of Detainees and Ex-detainees’ Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Membership, Addameer Prisoner Assist and Human Rights Affiliation, and Wadi Hilweh Info Centre reported that the detainees had included “54 kids, one in all whom was below 12 years outdated, and 6 ladies.”
“The variety of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons has reached round 4,500 by the tip of January, together with 34 ladies, 180 minors, and about 500 below administrative detention,” the assertion identified, in reference to Israel’s coverage of holding Palestinians without charge or trial.
The assertion added that the occupation authorities had been persevering with “to focus on Palestinian college college students over their school actions.”
The organisations’ assertion got here a day after Israeli forces arrested a younger Palestinian named, Tamer Shawamra, after storming his residence in Ramallah. The Israeli military had no rapid touch upon the matter.
The rights teams famous that the coronavirus was “spreading in all Israeli prisons, particularly Ofer Jail, the place the variety of infections had exceeded 500 circumstances.”
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